Why I Fell In Love With Cooking

I have been a blogger on/off for the past thirteen years and consistently for the past six years. I decided to start a second blog (okay, third blog, if you count the blog on my photography website) just for all things cooking and recipes, since my other blogs are vastly different and don't want them to mesh together. I wanted one space that I could go to that would have all my recipes.

Growing up and still even to this day, I'm a pretty picky eater. If you judge, you are obviously being insensitive and obviously do not understand this issue. It isn't as simple as, "Just eat it." Picky eaters aren't trying to act difficult on purpose. The quickest way NOT to get someone to try something new is to berate them or make them feel insecure about it (because honestly no one wants to be picky). People will either continue to stay the same or start to branch out with new foods and flavors. Either way, it has to be on their own time. I don't ever recall trying many different things growing up. Whether I did or didn't is a moot point, because I always liked to stay in my comfort zone. I always joked that I would get along perfectly with your seven year old. Okay, okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit.

I wish I had started implementing home cooking into our home years and years ago. However, back in 2011, my lifestyle (graduate school, internship, full-time position in the field) rendered that impossible. It was just easier to pick something up in the drive-thru on my way home. It was the convenience. Sometimes, it would be two times a day, and you can imagine that got super expensive. Some may have called that excuses. That may or may not be true, but that really wasn't the point. My schedule was undetermined, so it was literally impossible to know when I was going to be home, let alone eat. There were times that I would leave the house around 9am, and would not get home from a client's home until 8pm or 9pm. The majority of the time, it would be around 6pm or later. I still needed to do what was required of me for the job (case notes, plans for visits, paperwork, service plans, etc), and homework for graduate school. Plus, I needed to spend time with my husband and relax from the high stress that I was under. That left little time for anything. After that job and graduate school became a thing of the past, I was able to develop my love of cooking.

Fast forward to 2015, the cooking at home is back. Over the past three years, I cooked on and off, but life got in the way, as well as convenience and sneaky old habits. For the past year or so, I rarely eat out. If I do, it may be once a week, if that and for special occasions.  

What first inspired me this year to get back in the kitchen was my husband and his lunch that he takes for work. I saw him pack the same thing every single day, and it made me sad. I don't know why. I just wanted to see some variety in his lunch and something yummy. I told him my plan that night and that weekend our new journey had begun. 

I wanted us to eat better and use good quality ingredients at home. I didn't want to rely on the convenience of takeout or frozen meals. I wanted to become more adventurous with food and have tons and tons of meals to choose from, when cooking for my husband. With this journey, I wanted to still cook my "go-to" meals that will always be on my menu and in the process discover new foods that I may or may not have gave a chance before. 

The recipes here will sometimes be quick, but always yummy!!



P.S. Later on, I plan on purchasing a domain (whenever I decide on a name) and migrating everything over to Wordpress. Until now, this will do.